Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-13


was anything in the letter Inconsistent
with The report.
Senator Eustis regretted that the Sens-
tor from Kentucky should hive attempted
to wipe out OF view the 1epert of Cabinet
officer and to tell the Senate it did not
mean what it said. 1t was not 8 question
involving the construction of single
phrase or sentence, but 1t was question
whether three pages OF the Postmaster
Generals report were written seriously
or loosely. No private correspondence
could destroy the effect or remove the
purpose of that communication 10
Congress.
After further debate the question was
taken on Morgan's free ship amendment
aud was reiected-yeas, 10; nays, 81; q
party vote.
Senator Morgan moved to amend by
adding 10 the Senate amendment the
words, Zone of the lines OF steamships to
carry mails provided for in this act shall
be required TO sail 10 and from seaport
of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi
river" Agreed to without division.
Senator Frye moved to amend the com
mittee amendment by making it apply to
all South American and Central American
republics. Agreed to without division
The subsidy amendment as agreed to
was then adOpted-yeas So, nays II, as
follows:
Yeas-AlIison, Blair, Bowen, Call,
Cherry, COnger, CulI0m, Dawes, Dolph,
Edmunds, Eustis, Evarts, FarweIl, Frye,
German, Gray, Hale, Hoar, ingalls,, Nc
MILAN, Malone, Miller, Mitchell (Ore-
gon), Morgan, Palmer. Payne, P,att,
Plumb, Pugh, Riddlebarger, Sawyer,
Sherman, SDooner, Teller, Williams and
Wilson OF IOwa-36.
Nays-B=ck, Berry, CockreI, Coke,
Fair, George, Hampton, Harris, Kenns,
Msxey, Ransom, salisbury, Waltham and
Wilson of Maryland-l+.
The amendment as adopted reads as
follows: "For the transportation OF
foreign mails by American built and reg
iStered steamships to secure
greater frequency and regu-
larity in dispatch and greater
speed in the carriage of such mails 10
Brazil, the Argentine Republic and the
Republics of Uruguay and Paraguay and
other Central and South American re-
publlcs $500 900 Is appropriated, aud the
PostmasterGeneral is authorized to make
after due advertisements for proposals,
such contract or contracts with such
American steamships for term of not
less than five wears, Gnd ct rate of
compensation not exceeding for each
outward trip 500 per nautical
mile Of distance in the most direct
and feasible sailing course between
terminal points as shall be found expe-
dent and desirable to secure the ends'
above set forth; bat every such contract
shall be subject to be modified or an-
nulled by act of Congress. One Of the
lines CT steamships to carry the mails
provided for In this act shall be required
to sail to and from seaport of the Gulf
of Mexico or the Mississippi river"
After executive session the Senate ad-
iOurned.
TIE HOUSE.
WAsHISGToS, Feb. l2.-Immediately
after the reading of the journal Mr.. Scott
of Pennsylvania demanded that the regu-
lar order be called up, which was The
Senate bill for the retiremen and reCOin-
age of the trade dollar. After debate the
House decded-yeas l42, nays lotto
consider the trade-dOllar bill.
Mr.. Lanham of Texas, representing
minority Of the committee on coinage,
weights and measures, offered an amend
ment providing that within six months
after the passage of this act trade dollars
not mutilsted or defaCed shall be receive d
at their face value in payment Of all dues
to the United States; that any
holder of trade dollars may ex-
change the same for stand
ard silver dollars or subsidiary coins;
and that trade dollars received by the
Treasury in pawn NJ or exchange shall be
reCOined into standard silver dollars or
subsidiary coin, at the option of the Sec
Rotary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Warner Of Ohio offered an amend
meut providing the specification that the
recoinage Of the silver dollar shall not be
considered as part of the silver bullion
required to be purchased monthly and
coined into standard silver dollars.
Mr. Lanham accepted the amendment
offered by Mr.. Warner, and modified his
own accordingly.
The amendment as modified was agreed
to, III to %, and the bill as so amended
was passed-l74 to SO.
The House then went into the commit
tee of the whole on the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill,
Mr.. Burns Of Missouri made point of
order against the provision increasing
the salary of the minister to China from
SIP, 900 to ST. 500. The point of order
was sustained, as was also point of
order against the provisions fixing the
salaries of the ministers of the Argentine
Republic and Turkey at $4,000. Pend
ing further action the committee rose.
Messrs. Breckenridge of Arkansas,
Maybury and Reed were appointed con-
ferees on the bill mskingsMAY the close Of
the season for fishing.
The House adjourned.